A STUDY OF THE POSSIELE PURLIC HEALTH HAZARDS ARISING FROM THE USE OF TETRAETHYL LEAD IN THE AUTOMOBILE by FRED.

It is not enough to know that a Worker was employed in a lead plant.

This, of course, was for the purpose of pro viding a material impervious to tetraethyl lead.

--'e-'d other searchers, Trtm -Ethyl Lead Deadly ''T T j

In these cars the gaso line used contained no lead.

In these cars the gaso line used contained no lead.

With the exception of tetraethyl lead, and related organic compounds, its absorption through the skin or through abraded or lacerated surfaces may be considered negligible

We ore hastening the Investigation on the effects of the diluted tetraethyl lead as rapidly as possible and will give you an early report.

In addi tion to the local lesions signs of intoxication might also occur, if the dose was a large one, leading to a fatal issue, and, postmortem, lesions of K.u ST08S0436 210 THE JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE respiratory air because of the con tinuously alternating inspiratory and expiratory movements and because of the electric charges of the particles; the form of the particles also must be taken into consideration: flat scale or shell-like particles are more easily held in suspension.

For this reason any complicating diseases' should be noted, such, for example, as alcoholism or syphilis in con-' nection with arteriosclerosis in cases of lead or other metal poison ing.

RULES AND REGULATIONS COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ' CHAPTER 4 Article 432 Regulations Establishing Threshold Limits in Places of Employment .Under llie proviMious* of the Administrative Code Act or April 9. 1929.

Tetraethyl Lead in Gasoline*.

Tetraethyl lead in Gasoline; Official Beport Criticized.

Ill sandstone dust hazard among miners, quarrymen, and stonemasons in New South Wales (Badham and Assheton)........................................ 206 working conditions and health of quarrymen in New South Wales (Badham and Assheton)................ 206 Aviator, blood pressure in (Cruchet)................................................ 144 neuroses of (Meier-MQller)............... 197 routine pathologic examination for physiologically inefficient aviators (Whittingham)................................. 126 Bakeries, night work in..................... 33 Bakers, dermatitis in (Mummery)___ 28 tuberculosis in (Pansot and Rich ard)........................................... 138, 186 Baking industry, lead poisoning from heating ovens with wood from old boats (Bodros)............................... 88 Batteries, storage, lead poisoning in manufacture of (Balsac, Lafont, and Feil)......................................... 77 Belgium, factory inspection in, 1923.. 70 industrial medicine and hygiene in large coal mines of (Stassen)........ 151 Benefit association in industry, phy sician and (Cannon)...................... 42 Benzene, see Benzol.

Control subjects were asked leading questions as to their having been employed in ind\*stries known to in volve contact with lead.